Gilbert Arenas tells Lonzo Ball that Kobe Bryant & Shaq split up in 2004 after winning 3 championships together because Kobe realized that he wouldn’t be able to chase Michael Jordan in greatness when Shaq was winning all the accolades on the Lakers 😮👀
“Kobe’s winning his 3rd championship, so everybody’s like ‘Kobe already got 3. He’s the next Mike. He’s about to have 6-7’… ‘He don’t have Finals MVP, he’s not the best player. He’s more like a Robin, Scottie Pippen’… That summer, that’s when him & Shaq started having problems. ‘This needs to be my team.’ That’s where the fallout happened. It was over Michael Jordan.”
One day you nerds will learn that basketball is not mathematics. No team in the history of the world has ever gotten better when LeBron James leaves the team. The Lakers will be no different.
Marcus Smart says he signed with the Rockets for less money because the Lakers offer was “disrespectful”
“First off, I played so well that the offer that was ultimately given didn’t match the way that I played, especially when you see guys who played way worse than I did, the offers they’re getting. And then it wasn’t any security that we wanted that they were willing to do.”
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Luka Doncic sends a message to Lakers fans:
"I’m a Laker. It feels amazing and now I desperately want what all Lakers want: to win it all. I won’t rest until we win more championships."
(h/t @LukaUpdates)